Tiro 12 is Out

The twelfth issue of Tiro is out now with 11 new articles on professional reporting and transcription! The themes of this issue range from the use of AI in professional reporting and [...]

EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:Human Reporting ARTICLES D’Arcy McPherson:Balancing Innovation and Continuity: A Human-Centred Approach to AI Integration in Parliamentary Reporting Henk-Jan [...]

Communication is far more than the exchange of words. Every time human beings speak, they commit what Sociolinguistics call a speech act (Searle, 1969). This means that people engage in something [...]

Introduction In his article “The Risks of Researching Syntactic Phenomena in Edited Parliamentary Transcripts” (Sigurðsson 2025), Sigurðsson highlights potential challenges in studying linguistic [...]

Introduction After the success of the 8th International Symposium on Live Subtitling, held in Barcelona in 2023, and the 7th European Conference on Speech-to-Text Interpreting (ECOS), held in [...]

The future is here In 2025, China is experiencing an explosive growth of AI large models. Artificial intelligence is already part of everyone’s daily life, changing the way we live and work. For [...]

Introduction Only a few years ago, legal restrictions made EMI (English as Medium of Instruction) seem improbable. Today, however, EMI is rapidly expanding throughout Flemish universities. This [...]

Introduction Automatic speech recognition (ASR), powered by generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) and based on large language models (LLM), has had a remarkable impact on professional [...]

Introduction This article examines the experience of implementing STAAR (Sistema de Transcrição Automática da Assembleia da República), focusing on an unexpected challenge that emerges from [...]

Introduction This article presents the first part of a study on how the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system of the Portuguese Parliament may influence the grammatical correction of plenary [...]